SF News Airbnb And HomeAway Settle With SF, Will Require Hosts To Register With City Before Posting Airbnb and HomeAway announced Monday that they are dropping a lawsuit that was challenging San Francisco's ordinance that penalizes them for the scofflaw behavior of their users. As part of the settlement agreement,
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF State Student Tries To Hand Anti-Abortion Activist A Pepsi Since Kendall Jenner's disastrous Pepsi campaign is one of those internet gifts that keeps on giving, a student at SF State decided to turn the joke on a loud anti-abortion activist who was
Arts & Entertainment Mark Zuckerberg Shows Up At Random Ohio Family's House For Dinner Remember Zuck's early January announcement that he planned to visit with people in all 30 states that he'd never been to this year? Well, over the weekend he made a campaign stop in
SF News BART Robberies Are Up 45 Percent; One Arrest Made So Far In Coliseum Station Swarm #BART police arriving for extra shifts tonight pic.twitter.com/mjAfRTAfHt— Lisa Amin Gulezian (@LisaAminABC7) April 30, 2017 In the wake of the wide attention that came to a swarm or "flash mob"
SF News Multiple May Day Protests Planned Monday Around The Bay Area While May Day rallies have traditionally been calls for attention to workers' rights, this year the day is expected to be marked by many demonstrations nationwide focusing on immigrants' rights and resistance to
SF News Ann Coulter Shows Up To Speak... In Modesto @ModestoPolice @AnnCoulter 🇺🇸 Over 600 at the #AnnCoulter event in Modesto! Amazing evening!!! Many thanks to #ModestoPolice & #AnnCoulter! pic.twitter.com/TBLyUP4zSC— Barbara Jensen (@BarbaraJensen1) April 29, 2017 It seems as though Ann
Arts & Entertainment Hacker Steals Upcoming Season Of 'Orange Is The New Black,' Releases Most Of It Online After Ransom Isn't Paid Those who engage in illegal file-sharing on pirating sites can already watch the first 10 episodes of Orange Is the New Black Season 5, thanks to a hacker using the handle "thedarkoverlord." Netflix
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Take a 360-Degree Look At Three Twins' Petaluma Ice Creamery Three Twins Ice Cream, which now has six scoop shops around the Bay Area in addition to one in SoCal and pints being sold in grocery stores all over, makes all that deliciousness
SF News Day Around The Bay: We Need A Microgrid A founding member of Jefferson Starship, Craig Chaquico, has filed a lawsuit in SF to stop some of his former bandmates from using the band’s name. [CBS 5] An 18-year-old has been
Arts & Entertainment Killer Whales Continue Putting On Show In Monterey Bay With Multiple Killings A pod of at least nine killer whales, with some other individuals joining in, have had a busy week of feeding in Monterey Bay, all as tourists excitedly watched. On Monday we saw
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Hazel Debuts On Mid-Market, Biig Opening Slowly In the TL, and More The big news for the local food scene this week has to be the release of the new Top 100 from the Chronicle, which is notably a bit more diverse, both in terms
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Put Alexa Inside A Camera So She Can Give You Fashion Advice (And Maybe Spy On You) Behold the Amazon Echo Look, which the company is billing as a "hands-free camera style assistant," but which could, before you know it, end up being a creepy talking robot that watches your
SF News Self-Driving Car Guru Anthony Levandowski Steps Aside From Lead Role At Uber Embattled self-driving car division head Anthony Levandowski is stepping back from his role leading Uber's autonomous vehicle efforts pending the outcome of that court battle involving his former employer, Google/Alphabet, and some
SF News Noted Bad Landlord Anne Kihagi Thrown In Jail In Los Angeles Notorious local landlord Anne Kihagi, who was sued by the SF city attorney two years ago after numerous reports about her shady eviction tactics and unfair treatment of tenants, has now been sentenced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Adds La Taqueria, Ju-Ni, And 20 More Restaurants To Chronicle Top 100 It's the big announcement day for the Chronicle Top 100 Restaurants something that the paper, in previous years, took great pains to keep under wraps until the physical Sunday paper arrived in early
SF News BART 'Fleet Of The Future' Train Breaks Down During Test Causing Major Morning Delays It's another bad PR week for BART, and it's just gotten a bit worse after they were testing a four-car train of those new Fleet of the Future cars and it broke down
Arts & Entertainment 'The Encounter' At The Curran Is A Trippy Existential Podcast Come To Life Actor and playwright Simon McBurney probably did not anticipate the explosion of old-fashioned radio theater that's been happening lately via podcasts when he began working on The Encounter several years back. Like many
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Best Places To People Watch In SF What should you do on a pleasant weekend afternoon in San Francisco when you have an hour or two to kill? You could do the basics like an urban hike or a park-sit
Arts & Entertainment Here's The First Look At Helen Mirren In 'Winchester' CBS Films just released the first image of actress Helen Mirren in character, and in costume, as Sarah Winchester in the upcoming thriller Winchester. It's directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, the Australian
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Former Ritz And Michael Mina Chef Ron Siegel Gets His Own Spot In Marin Chef Ron Siegel, who in his time as executive chef at the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton earned four stars from the Chronicle and many other accolades, and who later would take over
Arts & Entertainment Video: Salma Hayek Translates Mexican Slang Salma Hayek, who's starring in the new film How to Be A Latin Lover, has just done this cute explainer video for Vanity Fair translating various Mexican slang phrases some of which have
SF News A Dozen Decomposing Dog Remains Found By Side Of Vallejo Trail She found the carcasses of 12 pets, dumped in plastic bags. No identifications. pic.twitter.com/E8vXx56Exk— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) April 27, 2017 A woman walking her own dogs stumbled upon a gruesome
SF News Berkeley Chancellor Pens Op Ed: 'We Are Under Attack From Both Sides' UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks took to the New York Times today with an op-ed concerning both the Ann Coulter speech kerfuffle and the ongoing use of the campus as a locale for
SF News BART Identifies Some Suspects In Mob Robbery As Woman Comes Forward With Separate Teen Attack Story The swarm robbery by a large group of teenagers that occurred at BART's Coliseum Station Saturday night continues to make the local news as KRON 4, CBS 5, and NBC Bay Area all
SF News Day Around The Bay: Flying Uber Cars? Really? Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A court has ruled that Uber must turn over
